Bambara groundnut: An underutilized leguminous crop for global food security and nutrition

XL Tan, S Azam-Ali, EV Goh, M Mustafa, HH Chai… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Rapid population growth, climate change, intensive monoculture farming, and resource
depletion are among the challenges that threaten the increasingly vulnerable global agri …

Bambara groundnut: an exemplar underutilised legume for resilience under climate change

S Mayes, WK Ho, HH Chai, X Gao, AC Kundy… - Planta, 2019 - Springer
Main conclusion Bambara groundnut has the potential to be used to contribute more the
climate change ready agriculture. The requirement for nitrogen fixing, stress tolerant …

Bambara Groundnut (Vigna subterranea L. Verdc): A Crop for the New Millennium, Its Genetic Diversity, and Improvements to Mitigate Future Food and Nutritional …

MMH Khan, MY Rafii, SI Ramlee, M Jusoh… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The world's food and agricultural schemes have gradually fallen into an alarming state due
to challenges such as high population birth rates, diverse agro-climatic zones, a lack of …

Crop diversification and farm household food and nutrition security in Northern Ghana

M Appiah-Twumasi, MA Asale - Environment, Development and …, 2024 - Springer
Farm households in Africa adopt resource allocation tools such as crop diversification to
minimize risk exposure and safeguard their food and nutrition security. This study uses …

Crops For the Future (CFF): an overview of research efforts in the adoption of underutilised species

PJ Gregory, S Mayes, CH Hui, E Jahanshiri, A Julkifle… - Planta, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Main conclusion Crops For the Future (CFF), as an entity, has established a broad
range of research activities to promote the improvement and adoption of currently …

Improving Bambara Groundnut Production: insight into the role of omics and beneficial bacteria

CF Ajilogba, OS Olanrewaju… - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
With the rise in the world population, environmental hazards caused by chemical fertilizers,
and a decrease in food supply due to global climate change, food security has become very …

Bambara groundnut is a climate-resilient crop: how could a drought-tolerant and nutritious legume improve community resilience in the face of climate change?

A Feldman, WK Ho, F Massawe, S Mayes - Sustainable solutions for food …, 2019 - Springer
Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.; www. bamyield. org) is a crop similar in
morphology and growth habit to groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.). It was also historically …

Is farming a belief in Northern Ghana? Exploring the dual-system theory for commerce, culture, religion and technology

M Tanko - Technology in society, 2020 - Elsevier
Rice production encountered several challenges, especially among rural farmers in
Northern Ghana. The current debate encompasses the belief of cultural norms and religious …

Migrants and non-migrants' welfare on cocoa farms in Ghana: Multidimensional poverty index approach

B Amfo, J Osei Mensah, R Aidoo - International Journal of Social …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose The study assessed welfare of migrant and non-migrant labourers on cocoa farms
in Ghana, using multidimensional poverty index (MPI) with four dimensions (education …

Food and nutrient gaps in rural Northern Ghana: Does production of smallholder farming households support adoption of food-based dietary guidelines?

I de Jager, KE Giller, ID Brouwer - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Food-based dietary guidelines (FBDGs) provide guidance to policy makers, the private
sector and consumers to redesign food systems and to improve diets of vulnerable …